Operation:
TBR Reduction: I added 48 (!) books to my to read list and removed 13 (the number of books I read, plus the 5 I got rid of [go me!]), so my
pile increased by 35 this month. Well, that's what happens when the Children's Hospital Book Sale comes to town! C'est la vie! But I think I'll try not to buy any books in October.

This post is the last of three updates for the Carrie Read-a-Long. It covers part 3 of the book, called Wreckage. Part 1 is here, and part 2 is here. This post will contain spoilers. You have been warned!

Part 3 of Carrie is very short, only 9 pages in my edition, and is basically an epilogue. It's quite different from the rest of the book. While part 1 was filled with foreshadowing, and part 2 is pure action, part 3 is the quiet aftermath. It consists entirely of excerpts from the books about the Carrie White incident that have been quoted throughout the book. It's essentially a description of how the town has failed to bounce back from the tragedy.

I like that this part was included. It makes perfect sense that a small town would not easily recover from the death of so many people, including so many children. Think how much of the population must have lost someone in their own families. There would just be too much grief all concentrated in one place.

As for final thoughts, I loved this book, just as I loved The Shining. I have officially become a Stephen King fan.

5 stars.

Oh, and I happened to pick up both 'Salem's Lot and Misery at the Children's Hospital Book Sale, so I'll definitely be taking part in the read-a-longs for those in October and November!

Thursday, September 27, 2012

My first Bloggiesta starts tomorrow! Once I started thinking of things to improve on my blog, I couldn't stop, so I now have a rather huge to do list. I hope that by the end of this weekend, this blog will have seen some nice improvements!

Add Goodreads links to all reviews, and to my review template.

Add Book Depository links to all reviews, and to my review template.

Go through all posts and add links between them wherever necessary.

Go through all posts and make sure they have all the right categories.

Move at least 3 blogs in my pending category in Google Reader either to my Books category (book bloggers that I lurve) or out of my Google Reader (book bloggers who are probably cool but we have nothing in common).

Check out a few other blogs that are participating in Bloggiesta and comment/add them to pending on Google Reader.

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I enjoy dancing and reading. I love Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Charmed. I blog about genealogy and books (on two separate blogs). I'm a cyclist. I'm a computer scientist, with a minor in philosophy. Languages I hope to learn fluently include French, German, American Sign Language, and Esperanto.